ACT NOW: Postpone the Vote on the E-Transactions Law

Written by jessica. Posted on June 14, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , . 13 Comments.
We’ve written an email in Arabic and English (below) to send to friends and colleagues to try to stop passage of the E-Transactions law tomorrow in the plenary session of Parliament. We encourage you to copy-paste and post it widely. It’s crucial that we respond immediately. This isn’t an Internet joke, as Maya Zankoul drew [...]

Emergency: Help Delay the Vote on E-Transactions Law

Written by jessica. Posted on June 13, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , . 18 Comments.
As we mentioned last week, there’s a law before parliament (in Arabic) that deals with electronic information, signatures, and e-banking. The vote has been set for Tuesday, June 15. A group of stakeholders will hold an EMERGENCY MEETING tonight, Sunday, June 13, to discuss the law and prepare to block the vote on Tuesday. Join [...]

قانون تكنولوجيا المعلومات الجديد في لبنان

Written by mohamad. Posted on June 13, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , . 4 Comments.
تحديث: لقراءة ترجمة مواد القانون إلى اللغة الإنكليزية، إضغط هنا ——————————————————————————————– قانون تكنولوجيا المعلومات الجديد في لبنان سوف يبت به هذا الثلثاء في مجلس النواب، و هذا القانون هو نفسه من سنة ٢٠٠٤ مع بعض الاضافات و الاصلاحات لتتماشى مع المعاملات الالكترونية للبنوك و قد عمل البنك الدولي على ادخالها جاهداو هي واضحة في المواد ال٦٨ الاولى [...]

Stop the New Internet Law in Lebanon

Written by jessica. Posted on June 10, 2010. Filed under Policies & Practice, SMEX News, Tech & the Arabic Language. Tagged , , , , , . 13 Comments.
For a long time now, whenever anyone started talking about the relative openness of the Net in Lebanon, people have shushed each other or touched wood, so as not to jinx our one very important advantage over the rest of the region: we have very little restrictions on how we use the machine. Wouldn’t you [...]

Aggregating Feeds for Lebanon’s Municipal Elections

Written by jessica. Posted on May 23, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. 2 Comments.
Yahoo pipes lets non-developers mash-up the web.
Update: It really doesn’t seem to be working. We could use some help. We’re experimenting with Yahoo Pipes to aggregate the RSS feeds for the following hashtags and accounts: #engageleb, #lebloggers, #lebelect, @ladeleb, #hibrme, lebanon+elections, #lebelections, #womencan. We’ve connected the Fetch Feed module with the Unique operator to reduce repetition by title. The results are [...]